Early winter spray of low biuret urea improves marketable yield and fruit quality of sweet oranges

Pakistan Journal of Botany

Volumn 40, Issue 4 SPEC. ISS., 2008, Pages 1455-1465

  Saleem, Basharat Ali ^a   Malik, Aman Ullah ^a   Maqbool, Muhammad ^b   Ud Din, Islaam ^a   Farooq, Muhammad ^a   Rajwana, Ishtiaq Ahmad ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE   (Pakistan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SARGODHA   (Pakistan)

^c University College of Agriculture   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CITRUS; CITRUS JAMBHIRI; CITRUS LIMON; CITRUS SINENSIS;

EID: 62249119970     PISSN: 05563321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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